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Sour Spicy Beef Soup (Asem Asem Daging)

Name: How to cook Sour Spicy Beef Soup (Asem Asem Daging) - cookcic.com
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 30 min
Cuisine: Us

Introduce

Chef :

purple_acied

Sour Spicy Beef Soup (Asem Asem Daging)

This dish is a well known dish from Semarang (Central Java, Indonesia). The soup is so flavourful, with unique combination of sour, sweet, spicy). So fresh and refreshing! Note: pls adjust the amount of the chillies if you don’t like spicy food. The soup will still be delicious :)

Ingredient

500 gr

beef cube/shank, cut cubed

2 liters

water

200 gr

french beans, cut like a matchstick

big carrot, cut like a matchstick

green/unripe green tomatoes

1/4 tsp

pepper

1 tbsp

sweet soya sauce (preferably Indonesian sweet soya sauce like bango or ABC brand)

1 piece

gula melaka/brown sugar (about 50 gram)

4 tsp

tamarind juice/asam jawa

1 cube

beef/chicken stock

big green chillies, cut

big red chillies, cut

bird eye chillies/chilli padi, whole - no need to cut

shallots, slice thinly

garlics, slice thinly

4 cm

galangal/blue ginger, cut and smashed a bit to release the flavour

3 pcs

Indonesian bay leaves/daun salam

Cooking instructions

* Step 1

Clean, cut the beef cube or shank. Put in pressure cooker, add 2 litres of water and cook for 15-30 mins (beef shank 15 mins, beef cube 30 mins). Set aside.

* Step 2

Prepare the rest of the ingredients, wash clean and cut accordingly

* Step 3

Heat some oil in a frying pan, stir fry the shallot and garlic until fragrant and turn translucent. Add chillies, bay leaves, galangal. Continue cooking for few more minutes.

* Step 4

Add the stir fried chillies/shallots/garlics to the beef soup. Turn on the fire again, add sweet soya sauce, brown sugar, salt, pepper, sugar. Add french beans and carrot, cook until soften. Lastly add the green tomatoes and tamarind juice. Cook for a few more minutes. I don’t cook the tomatoes until too soft/mushy.

* Step 5

Taste, add any seasoning as needed. The soup will be a mixture of sour, spicy, sweet and salty at the same time. So refreshing

* Step 6

Serve with warm rice 😋😋

* Step 7

For me: at step 4, once I cook the shallots/garlics/chillies in the soup for a few minutes, I will take the chillies out from the soup and put them in separate bowl. Why? Because the longer you cook the chillies, the spicier your soup will be. And as I am cooking for the whole family, I don’t want the soup to be too spicy for my kids. We will add the chillies back before serving in our individual bowl.

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